I started my programming career a long time ago when I was 14 years old, and I started with a book by James Lee, suggested by a Unix Systems Administrator I met in Barnes and Noble. In a month I had ...

For a few decades the programming language of choice for AI was either Prolog or LISP, and a few more others that are not so well known. Most of them were designed before the 70's.
Changes happens a ...

This question is geared specifically towards finding out what techniques you employ when faced with learning a new language - feel free to skip to the last paragraph for the straight-forward question.
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Whenever I read blog posts about a new app that had Node.js involved, bloggers often write "the app was written in node."
But I hardly ever see a phrase going like "the app was written in JavaScript, ...

I'm an ASP.NET developer since 3 years ago and I'm now pretty powerful in WebForms. But now it seems that everybody is moving or shifting towards ASP.NET MVC, and my company is also taking this shift.
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Recently, having purchased a smart phone, I discovered podcasts. It's great, cause I spend time commuting and usually that time would be a waste. Admittedly, it's fairly light stuff, mostly news and ...

I currently write web apps using asp.net web forms and getting my company to move to another technology is like [insert funny line here]. I would really like to start writing apps using MVC, but they ...

I'm having a discussion with someone quite older than me, so I have no place in telling him what is wise. He is in the computer field but resists change, and we're discussing how his co-workers are ...

We are starting a new project with a new customer.
We have a legacy application circa 1997 that we are planning on using to satisfy the customer's business requirements.
I have been on the fence as ...

A disconcertingly high number of new technologies/paradigms are overhyped (as is evident from replies to this question). Combine this with the fact that being early adopter is inherently risky. This ...

I sometimes wonder how CEOs or Founders of companies like Microsoft and Oracle manage the overall technology movement and product link-up.
Take for example Oracle, it started with the database only ...